Word: churned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...original talent for characterization in a first novel (The Walsh Girls, TIME, Nov. 29, 1943). Her second (Daisy Kenyan, TIME, Nov. 19, 1945) was as confused as the neurotics she wrote about. The Question of Gregory shows no particular improvement and raises the question why writers are encouraged to churn out novels whose people are as unbelievable and basically as uninteresting as poor old John Gregory...
...biggest day of the biggest week of the single scull season closed last night with Dick Emmet ensconced as king of the University singles. Tomorrow many of yesterday's singles participants and seven Crimson eights will churn downstream for the festive American Rowing Association Regatta...
Without Malarkey. His stomach would begin to churn and his brown eyes got watery and bloodshot. Normally calm and pleasant, he changed into a grouch. Says Mel: "I feel weak-weak as a kitten -when I walk on the field. I feel too tired to warm up, and I don't warm up much. Not as much as other fellows." U.S.C. Coach Dean Cromwell (now head coach of the Olympic track team), who has a reputation for inspiring his athletes with well-chosen malarkey, never goes near...
...still planting root crops in the dark of the moon, and above-the-ground crops when the moon was full. This practice, probably as old as agriculture, was supposed to steer the plants' efforts in the right direction. Elsewhere, farmers still believed that a silver coin in the churn would make butter come faster; that a storm was brewing when pigs ran around with sticks in their mouths, or when cats and rats played together after sundown...
...inevitable or feasible answer to every company's problems. But some such way, said Johnston, must be found to do the same thing throughout U.S. industry. He concluded: "Aggressive ambition on the part of the individual is the lifeblood of capitalism. The more of it we can churn into action, the better for us. The two systems of capitalism and socialism will compete throughout the world for the minds of men. The two systems are on trial. In the final analysis that system which provides the greatest benefit to the greatest number of individuals will...